Improvement in supports for tumbling-rods for thrashers



A. REASON. SUPPORTS FOB. TUMBLIN'G RODS FOB. THRASHERS.

No.181,595- n -Aug.Z9,1876.

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UNITED 'rA'rEs PATENT OFFICE;

ALBERT REASON, OF PINOKNEY, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUPPORTS-.FOR TUMBLlNG-RODS FOR THRASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 181,595, dated August 29, 1876; application filed June 6, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT REASON, of Pinckney, in the county of L vingston and State of Michigan, have invented an Improved Snpport for the Tumbling-Rods of Thrashers, of which the following is a specification:

The object I have in view is to obviate the necessity of staking down a bearing for the tumbling rod which communicates motion from a horse-power to a thrashing-machine, by attaching a supporting-frame carrying a bearing for the tumbling-rod directly to the main frame of the machine, and in such amanner that said supporting-frame and the tumbling-rod can be tilted or folded up behind the machine for transportation with the latter.

Figure l is a perspective view, showing my improvement applied to the main frame of a thrashing-machine, in position to couple with a horse-power lying on the ground. Fig. 2 is bearing upon the ground near the universal joint which couples the tumbling-rod to the motor, to support the former in its proper po sition. In lieu thereof I place the bearing in a bracket-hanger, a, at the side of a bar, D, at the outer end thereof, the inner of which rod is hinged, through a heel-plate, I), to one of the lower corners of the frame A, and is kept in line with said frame by a diagonal brace, D, hinged in like manner to the other side of said main frame.

E is arod, fastened by an eyebolt to the outer end of the bar D, with a hook turned inits free end, which engages with a staple, c, on the side of the frame A, to lock the said bar in its lowered or Working'position, as seen in Fig. 1., or into another staple, c, to sustain it in its elevated position, as seen in Fig. 2.

What I claim as my invention is-- The combination, with the main frame A and the driving-shaft O of a thrashing-machine, of the bar and brace D D, hinged to the said frame, the bearing a. for the tumblingrod, the hooked rod E, and the staples c c,

constructed andzarranged substantially as described and shown.

ALBERT REASON.

Witnesses:

J. J. TEEPLE, THOMPSON GRIMEs. 

